Originally Posted by differenzmusic
Hey, J&B...

Thank you so much for the kind words. The industry doesn't seem
to be looking anymore for creativity, except that it carries with it youth and a lot of money. I constantly hear that the industry died when Napster broke through and music started leaning toward free. That is too bad. There are those of us who still write and produce really good music, so it seems we need some kind of a breakthrough or discovery of something new where all of us still making music have a way to get it out there. I do have an idea how to do this through a website...hmmm...I will let you know what I come up with...


We recorded a lot of bluegrass with a great friend who was a stellar musician. Grammy nominated, 12 time US Fiddle Champion, played on Garth Brooks' albums and more. When he passed away at 39 we released a 2002 CD of our recordings with him and donated all the proceeds to cancer research in his honor. The CD did well for Bluegrass and all went well for about18 months. After that period it was showing up available all over the net for illegal downloads and sales plummeted. We still get payments from Amazon, iTunes, spotify, rhapsody, etc., but nothing compared to the actual CD sales. It's the new normal.

Check out our new album Janice Merritt "Am I Blue Enough?"
on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon and others.